Considering Helping ND Student. Seriously.

[GGGG]

This is an attractive young woman who is used to manipulating guys to pay for her.

That's a pretty stupid statement given her background and how she went to school.

[Herman Cain]

That's a pretty stupid statement given her background and how she went to school.

http://americansportsnet.com/uteps-cameasha-turner-basketball-saved-my-life/

[real chili 83]

A ghetto kid who has figured out how to manipulate the system.
 
http://americansportsnet.com/uteps-cameasha-turner-basketball-saved-my-life/

Good for her.

That's just a weee out of bounds.

You know you must be wrong when I take the side of a stinking Domer on an issue.

[real chili 83]

ND sucks

[brewcity77]

If people don't think our generation wouldn't have done the same thing had the gofundme medium existed at the time, they are kidding themselves.

I'm a big fan of socializing things. Personally, I think college should be free and completely subsidized by the government. I feel our system has stifled the education of millions and fostered the debt of millions more.

However, 99% of people still have to function in that system. If people want to protest it, I'll hold a sign. Raise money to change the system? I'll donate. Propose a law to enhance the greater good, you have my vote. But when a perfectly able individual spurns job opportunities and instead tries to exploit the public rather than playing by the same rules everyone else has to adhere to, I just can't be sympathetic.

Maybe it's just that I hate the gofundme fad, maybe it's that I have more respect for people actually earning what they have. Would I have turned down the money? I'm sure not. But I also would never have asked for it in the first place.

[brewcity77]

And the entirety of circumstances matters to me. She refused a job in Europe that could have paid this tuition. She could elect for a public defender gig that would pay her tuition. And I'm sure if she took loans, it would be far less than the average student and her wages as a defense lawyer would allow her to pay back those loans.

I may be a bleeding heart liberal, but this isn't someone I'd waste a cent on. Clearly others choose to give her handouts. That's their prerogative, but in the long run I think it's dumb on their part and will hurt her more than it helps.

[4everwarriors]

I'm a refugee from Alabama, myself, hey?

[Herman Cain]

That's just a weee out of bounds.

You know you must be wrong when I take the side of a stinking Domer on an issue.

Noted and Modified.

[Herman Cain]

And the entirety of circumstances matters to me. She refused a job in Europe that could have paid this tuition. She could elect for a public defender gig that would pay her tuition. And I'm sure if she took loans, it would be far less than the average student and her wages as a defense lawyer would allow her to pay back those loans.

I may be a bleeding heart liberal, but this isn't someone I'd waste a cent on. Clearly others choose to give her handouts. That's their prerogative, but in the long run I think it's dumb on their part and will hurt her more than it helps.

The very last point you make is excellent. This will definitely hurt her more than it will help.

[TAMU, Knower of Ball]

I'm a big fan of socializing things. Personally, I think college should be free and completely subsidized by the government.

Dear god no. Please no. I get paid little enough as it is and I should have a staff of 10 but only have 3. Colleges would be a shell of themselves if they were socialized.

[mu03eng]

The very last point you make is excellent. This will definitely hurt her more than it will help.

Agreed, but why do we feel we need to save her from herself?

[vogue65]

This is an attractive young woman who is used to manipulating guys to pay for her.  The technology today makes it even easier.

I was homeless at one point in my life and unloaded freight trains etc to work my way up. I never asked for a dime from anyone.

Borrow the money like everyone else and grow up.

And owe your soul to the company store.
Love it how we promote debt, when it is somebody elses, and when the banks cane make a buck.
When the money is washed through the Red Cross, the Salvation Army or the church our charity is acceptable, but when it is direct to charity it is suspect.

And, by the way, this is a ridiculous topic.